Education Promotion

This project was born from a personal experience of the founder Mr. Kodjo Drofenou. During the 1995-1996 school year, while he was just a child at the Kpélé Govié’s elementary school in Govié, Togo (West Africa), he experienced a historic moment. That year, a group of university students from the local community (Mr. Komi Kpatcha, Mr. Marcel Modjinou and others) donated school supplies to the best students in each class of the school. 

Like in most rural and disadvantaged communities, it is hard to explain to children why education is important because all their surroundings, people and nature, send direct and indirect signals that soon or later convince them that survival skills are more important than academia education. At that time, Mr. Kodjo and his friends always competed, but not for school matters. They compete to climb the highest fruit trees (mango, orange, coconut) and of course the fruits are their rewards. They also play soccer, sometimes all day long. 

Mr. Kodjo and his friends, who were not qualified to receive the first edition’s awards of the program, had launched an internal competition to see who would first receive this award in their group. This challenge allowed them to achieve excellent academic results year after years. They experienced this intellectual competition as a historic turning point in their schooling journey and that helped them to achieve lifetime goals. 

Twenty (20) years later, Mr. Kodjo Drofenou decided to initiate and institute this project to promote education and the preservation of the environment in rural areas. Every child competes, from personal experience, this is a great way to channel that competitiveness at an early age toward education to develop these rural and disadvantaged communities in the long-term. 

Thus, since July 2015, this program covers 19 schools and benefits 20 to 30 students per school.

Since 2015 our organization emerged to alleviate the sub-par education and sub-optimal living conditions of the locals in these communities. The Habitat and Education Promotion organization set out to equip the communities with tool that would help improve and increase the level of education attendance of children in the local communities.